Wandering humeral head mimicking a breast mass.
A 74-year-old woman was incidentally found to have a left breast mass. The mass could not be adequately compressed to be visualized on mammography. Ultrasonography showed a heavily-calcified rounded mass in the left axillary tail of the left breast. Chest radiograph confirmed that the mass was a migrated humeral head. Remotely-displaced fracture-dislocations of the humeral head are very rare and to our knowledge, displacement into the breast, clinically mimicking a breast mass, has not been previously described.
Tan
Gerald J S
GJ
Department of Radiology, Changi General Hospital, 2 Simei Street 3, Singapore 529889.
Tan
Andrew G S
AG
Peh
Wilfred C G
WC
D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002828:Choristoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006811:Humerus; D012783:Shoulder Dislocation / Q000150:complications*; D012784:Shoulder Fractures / Q000150:complications*